Word Meanings - BESEEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Seen; appearing. 2. Decked or adorned; clad. Chaucer. 3. Accomplished; versed. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to BESEEN)
- VERSET
A verse. Milton. - ADORNINGLY
By adorning; decoratively. - VERSEMAN
See PRIOR - ADORNATION
Adornment. - VERSABLENESS
Versability. - VERS DE SOCIETE
See SOCIETY - ACCOMPLISHED
1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished - APPEAR
appear + parto come forth, to be visible; prob. from the same root as 1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9. 2. To come before the public; as, a great - VERST
A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet. - VERSAL
Universal. Shak. - VERSUTE
Crafty; wily; cunning; artful. - VERSOR
The turning factor of a quaternion. Note: The change of one vector into another is considered in quaternions as made up of two operations; 1st, the rotation of the first vector so that it shall be parallel to the second; 2d, the change of length - ACCOMPLISHER
One who accomplishes. - VERSANT
Familiar; conversant. Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith. - ADORNMENT
An adorning; an ornament; a decoration. - VERSATILITY
The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness. - DECKER
1. One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker. 2. A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker. - ADORNER
He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier. - VERSABLE
Capable of being turned. - DECKLE EDGE
The rough, untrimmed edge of paper left by the deckle; also, a rough edge in imitation of this. - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - DISAPPEARING
p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - UNIVERSITY
universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having - AVERSENESS
The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness. - OVERSHOT
From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly - ESTOVERS
Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's - REVERSION
The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after - DIVERS
directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various; - CONTROVERSAL
1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle. - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - RENVERSEMENT
A reversing. - CONVERSIVE
1. Capable of being converted or changed. 2. Ready to converse; social. Feltham. - AVERSATION
A turning from with dislike; aversion. Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor. - OVERSHOOT
1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.